Evening Star Newspaper, December 24, 1928, Page 18

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. . MONDAY, DECEMBER %4 1928, FEATUR Filling the Christmas Stocking BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. R VANGE = SMPTYING THEIR CHRISTMAS STOCKINGS IS ONE OF THE MOST EX- CITING AND MERRIEST EVENTS OF THE DAY FOR CHILDREN. The day before Christmas is one of happy activities, for it is given over to preparations for the great holiday. ‘These preparations may consist of cook- ing goodies for the Christmas dinner so that as little work as possible will have to be done on the day itself. Or it may be given over to putting finish- ing touches to gifts “all but” ready, and in wrapping them when they are completed, as well as others waiting for their dainty coverings. Or it may be a combination of these and other pleasant tasks, one of which is sure to be filling stockings or trimming a tree, or ar- ranging gifts attractively for the fam- ily. Whatever the duties, there is al- ways an element .of merriment about 4t, if there is a true Christmas spirit. There is something so picturesque ebout hanging up Christmas stockings and so jolly about diving down into them in the morning! What can make such strange and weird bumps and lumps that alter the usually smooth and even contours? Excitement runs high and is constantly piqued, until the en- tire contents have been explored. Young and old enter into the spirit of the oc- casion so heartily that it seems a mis- take to omit the feature whatever other forms of presenting gifts are also in- cluded. Do not let the regulation stuffing of epple and orange in the foot prevent some things of interest being tucked there also. There should be a present as far down the foot as it can be tucked, for this prolongs the suspense. Supply plenty of nuts, raisins and popcorn to scatter in the stocking to fill in erevices. It is well to have plenty of jokes to @dd to the amusement. There are al- ways family jokes to stress, just as there are class-day jokes at colleges, with gifts to go with them. These should cost but trifling sums, 5 cents a piece or 10 at most, or they can be made at home with the things on hand. If with them go verses, however crude, or some sayings understood by all the family, the fun will be greater. In some families it is the custom for children to have their stockings just as son as they wake in the morning. This satisfies the little tots until after break- fast, when the whole family gathers to- gether about the fireplace to hunt through their stockings hanging jaunti- 1y before it, or to take the presents from the gay tree, or the festively ar- ranged pile of packages. (Copyright. 1028.) . Everyday Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. “God Rest Ye Merrie.” Every celebration is a time-binding custom perpetuated by succeeding gen- erations for some social worth. Some historians say that Christmas was_first celebrated in the year 180 A. D. Others mention the years 202, 353, 440 and 534. No one knows when or why. One thing is certain, Christ- mas has always signified a seasan of good will, an escape from the usual “round of irritating concerns and du- ties.” “The psychological effect must have been, and for that matter still is, enormous. Supernaturalism holds an important place in the celebration of Christmas. According to the immortal Shakes- peare: “And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad; ‘The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike. No kf’niry takes, no witch hath power charm, So“hnuawed. and so gracious is the g From the psychological point of view, Christmas is a ghost-laying cele- bration, a friendship-renewing season. Out of it come peace, contentment, Democracy. “God Rest Ye Merrie.” (Copyright, 1928.) The Daily Cross-Word Puzzle (Copyright, 1928.) . Reddish yellow. . Eats into. . Footstalk of a leaf. . Fashionable. Thing understood. . An equal. . Faint. . Aloft. 20. Human limb. . Fragment. Perform. Appendage. . Allures by bait, . Location, . Brilliancy. 5 8»(5;:[15 as result of effort. val Builder. . Send out. Principal garment of Hindu women. . French overcoat. . Stiffness. . A liquor, Record of a year. 61. Central post of staircase, Dignified poem. Myself. ANSWER TO YESTZRDAY'S PUZZLE | . Turkish official. . Surrounded by. Souvenir. Competed with. Effaces. Meanings, Down. . Narcotic. . Recall. By. . A wee bit. . Walks away. . Pick out. . Note in Guido's scale. . Death rattle, . Presages. . Cheat. . One who extracts. Group of seven. Mistake. 1]. Meas . Away from the wind, . Japanese aborigine, . Fold on a coat. . Shoot of grass. . Particular periods. . Written list. . Trench. . Striped beast. . Canadian city. . Early settler. . Air. 47. Artificial butter. 48. More prepared. . Metric unit of weight; Fr. . Garden shelter. . Corrects. . A wasting away. . Send back. . Narrow road. . Active, . Possessive pronoun. . Went swiftly. . Parent. . Behold. Willard Vander Veer, who is camerman with the Byrd Expedition to the South Pole, is said to have pho- tographed more curious places and ob- jects than any one else in the world. He will use the same camera with which his North Pole photographs were taken, 2 Today in Washington History BY DONALD A. CRAIG. December 24, 1855.—Many members of the House of Representatives are quite evidently disappointed because they are compelled to remain in Wash- ingion during the Christmas holida: owing to the fight over the speaker: This does not mean that they disiil Washington as-a city, but that they would like to spend Christmas at their own homes. This occurrence is very unusual, es- pecially with those who reside in Mary- land and Virginia, within king" dis- tance of the Capital City, since Con- gress usually completes 'its organiza- tion and adjourns over the holidays. But, as one writer in the local press expresses it today, “more or less, ail parties will still leave us for the time betng—‘pairing off,’ of courge. We doubt whether any of them will be ab- sent a day without previously effecting such an arrangement.” ‘There was great excitement in the House today, as the balloting for Speaker proceeded. It may take several days to reach a result. The outcome of the first ballot today was as follows: Banks, 102; Richardson, 72; Fuller, 31, and Seaton, 11. Nothing has come to light in recent years to show more clearly the ma- terial progress of the country than the statement of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, just made, public, telling of the amount of freight this railrcad has carried and has contracted to carry. For this season it has been unprece- dentedly large. The company's receipts for October and November amount to $100,000 more than the receipts for the correspond- : ing period a year ago. Judging from the immense trade now going on, and the contracts made by the Western agents of the railroad for this season, the revenue of this railroad will show an even greater gain for this and the succeeding Winter months. o -~ Register and Tribiine Syndicate: “Hangin’ around under the missel- toe is the surest way to miss out on the fun these days.” (Copyright. 1928.) WINTERTIME BY D. C. PEATTIE. A little knowledge is & dangerous thing, and for that reason I have al- ways refrained from acquiring any. Ignorance, however, is no bar to enjoy- ment, and without knowing anything about astronomy one can, I find, divert himself immensely with watching the stars on Winter nights. It is a some- what chilly business to go out on a hill- top in Winter and study the stars, although astronomers are unanimous in telling you that this is the season. They say this because the atmosphere is clear, and the nights are long. But they sit in a nice, warm observatory, and sleep all day. In short, they know too much about astronomy. But we mere mortals can do our Winter astronomizing best from bed, and I find, with a little practice, that I can steer my course through insomnia by the stars as well as ever Casco da Gama, outward bound for India. Orion i§ beyond a doubt the most magnificent constellation in the skies, and by his position you may tell the time of night. At this season he is seen half way up the eastern sky before midnight, the celestial doe that he hunts is apparently in the west, for he plows his way through an underbrush of stars in that direction, his arrow ever pointed. If you wake up at 2 o’clock, and note how Close he is to the margin of your range of vision (bounded, say, by your win- dow), you may, thereafter, learn to tell the time of night by his passage across the stage set by your window. 1t is astonishing that there is really anybody who does not know Orion. Yet because I am contlnually meeting them, I will babble once again a thing known to the Greeks of long ago—known, I think, even: to their little children. When you see three stars in a row, of the most brilliant magnitude, you may know that you are gazing on his jeweled belt. Three more stars are a flying leg, two others one half-bent; a star glows in his helmet and his bent bow and arrow are sketched, for the imaginative to read. Home in Good Taste BY SARA HILAND. ‘The selection of pillows for the living room is often a trying task, for of the hundreds shown in the stores very few seem suitable for a first-floor room. Light silks with metal or silk lace and flower decorations are too char- acteristic of a boudoir pillow to warrant their being used in the living room, and those of deep, rich tones seem to be so scarce. ‘The best solution of the pillow prob- lem is to fashion one’s own sa that there will be no question of the out- come. In the illustration is shown a pillow which would lend an air of dignity to any living room. It is of striped satin with a dull surface and is embroidered in wool. The design is somewhat along the English print motifs, and the seam is finished by inserting an uncut fringe of wool in colors to match those em- ployed in the embroldery. ‘The motif may be done in a satin stitch or a fine chain stitch, and the back of the pillow should be of the same material as that chosen for the (Copyright, Sir Wifred Grenfell, the well known missionary who has lived for many years in Labrador, recently defeated Lord Melchett for the rship of St. Andrew's Univessity of Stotland, Lists Four Qualities Husbands Rejoice Over. What _Makes a Wife Easy to Live With? DorothyDix Equanimity, Congeniality, Vast Admiration for Hushand and Appreciation of His Efforts in Her Behalf. A WOMAN may have all of the standardized wifely virtues. She may be as devoted as Patient Grisolda, as domestic as a gas range and a vacuum cleaner, and as above reproach as Mrs. Caesar, and yet make her husband’s life a torment to nim. So the other day I asked a group of men what quality it was in their wives that made them easy to live with. “My wife has a sweet reasonableness,” sald the first man. “She can see things straight. She doesn't demand the impossible and have hysterics when she can't get it. & «“When business is good and I can layish luxuries on her, she is delighted with the nice things I give her, but when I strike a streak of hard luck and we have to pinch and economize, there is never a whimper out of her. She is jusu as gay and cheerful as when we are prosperous, and she bucks me 'p by reminding me that we have to have a few rainy days, and that the storm will | blow over after a bit, and the sun will be shining again. “My wife doesn’t throw a fit every time I am late to dinner, or stay downtown to meet an old friend, or go on a vacation trip alone. 3he knows that a business man cannot always control his time, and that even .he most- married man likes to get away from the petticoats every now and then and have a powwow with other he-men. “My wife doesn't get green-eyed over every pretty girl in my office, or because I occasionally take an old woman friend out to lunch, or because I admire beautiful women and like to look at them. She knows that the fact that a man is married doesn’t make him blind to the charms of other women, or keep him from admiring them, but that this abstract admiration doesn’t affect his devotion to his wife.” Py “THE thing that makes my wife easy to live with is that she keeps on cutting bait,” said the second man. “Most women slump as soon as they get married. They leave off their company clothes, and the company manners they wore during courtship, and’ they think that any old rag aid any old line is good enough for a mere husband. “My wife has always pald me the compliment of thinking that I was worth dressing up for, so that I have never had to compare her invidiously with the girl I fell in love with. Better than that, she has always continued to treat me as if I were a lover instead of & meal ticket. 1 “God knows I have my faults. Plenty of them, but she has never told me of them, or reminded me of what a poor, weak, faltering creature I am. She never criticizes my tastes. She never flouts my opinions. She laughs at my Jjokes and listens with interest to my stories. e e “SHE makes me feel that whatever a cold and unappreciative world may think of me, she admires me beyond all other human beings, and that I am still the hero of her girlish dreams, and if there is anything more soothing than that to a man’s vanity, I don’t know what it is.” 4 “The thing that makes my wife easy to live with is her being such darn good company,” sald the third man. “She is the best pal ever and there is never a dreary moment when she is around. She is full of pep, and always on her tiptoes and ready for anything. If I want to step out of an evening, she can grab her hat and be on her way in two minutes, and when we get to a place she doesn’t wet-blanket the occasion, as so many wives do, by finding fault wijth the program; or the music, or the food, or grumbling over the price, or wondering why I didn't take her somewhere else. On the contrary, she is always the life of the party and puts ginger into the occasion by her witty sallies about people and things. “Believe me, we have no dull evenings at home when we yawn other's faces and there is a silence so thick you could cut it };vm\ :n ki:}::‘ Nobody could be bored when my wife is around because she is just full of gay and lively chatter—things she has seen, things she has read, things that have happened to her, for she can't go to the butcher shop without seeing something funny, or getting some little story that is full of human interest. “The reason that most men leave home is because they are bored stiff in it, but not me. I am a fireside companion because I have a wife to talk to who catches everything I say on the fly, and who is so entertaining herself that she makes other company fall flat.” . “TH’E thing that makes my wife easy ~the fourth man. “It is easy to gratitude for favors received, and hard your labor and sacrifice for granted and than they had a right to expect. That to live with is being appreciative,” said do things for people who show some to do them for those who take all of as a matter of course, and as no more is what many wives do and it is what makes many husbands sour on matrimony. “My lot is like that .ol the average married man. T slave lik for my family, and by the time the bills are all paid there isn't 5e:ydxl;x.3'd=’ olx;s‘: for father. I can easily see where a man could get to a place where he would think he was getting a pretty children wasn’t worth the price, raw deal and that marrying and bringin but my wife makes it worth while for zneg b “For she ennobles it somehow. She gilds the drudgery and makes me see myself as doing something bigger than I am—passing on the torch of life, giving fine citizens to my country. That sort of thing, you know. She has t; children to regard me not as a cash register that they can punch Ir‘:;ih;xg;: money when they want it, but as a sort of unsung martyr and hero who has given his life to them. “I tell you it's mighty easy to work for a wife who appreciates all her and mighty discouraging to have to work for onfpwho nev:l' {Q’:ndosg(y); ‘Thank you,” but just ‘Gimme, gimme, me have.'” So said these men, it she is, Mr. Husband? can you spare? Have you got? Let What is it that makes your wife easy to live with— DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1926.) WORLD FAMOUS STORIES A DREAM OF WILD BEES BY OLIVE SCHREINER. Py (Olive Schreiner, or Mrs. Cronwright, 1860-1920, was a South African writer. She also used the pen name of Ralph Iron. Probably her most famous book is “The Story of an African Farm.") L4 A mother sat alone at an open win- dow. Through it came the voices of the children as they played under the acacia trees and the breath of the hot afternoon air. In and out of the room flew the bees, the wild bees, with their legs yellow with pollen, going to and “fi? the acacia trees, droning all the while. She sat on a low chair before the table and darned. She took her work from the great basket that stood before her on the table; some lay on her knee and half covered the book that rested there. She watched the needle in and out, and the dreary hum of the bees and the noise of the children’s voices became a confused murmur in her ears as she worked slowly and more slowly. ‘Then the bees, the long-legged, wasp- like fellows who make no honey, flew closer and clpser to her head, droning. Then she grew more and more drowsy, and she laid her hand, with the stock- ing over it, on the edge of the table and leaned her head upon it. And the voices of the children outside grew more and more dreamy, came now far, now near; then she did not hear them, but she felt under her heart where the ninth child lay. Bent forward and sleeping there, with the bees flying about her head, she had a weird brain picture; she thought the bees length- cned and lengthened themselves out and became human creatures and moved round and round her. Then one came to her softly, saying: “Let me lay my hand upon thy side where the child sleeps. If I shall touch him he shall be as 1.” She asked, “Who are you?” And he said: “I am Health. Whom I touch will have always the red blood dancing in his veins; he will not know weariness nor pain; life will be a long laugh to him.” “No,” said another, “let me touch, for I am Wealth. If I touch him material care shall not feed on him. He shall live on the blood and sinews of his fel- low men, if he will, and what his eye lusts for his hand will have. He shallj not know ‘I want.’” And the child lay still like lead, And_another said: “Let me touch him. I am Fame. The man I touch I lead to a high.-hill where all men see him. When he dies he is not forgotten; his name rings down the centuries; each echoes it on to his fellows. Think, not to be forgotten through the ages!" And the mother lay breathing stead- ily, but in the brain picture they pressed closer to her. “Let me touch the child,” said one, “for'I am Love. If I touch him he shall not walk through life alone. In the greatest dark, when he puts out his hand he shall find another hand by it. When the world is against him another | shall say, ‘You and 1'” And the child trembled. But another pressed close and sald: “Let me touch, for I am Talent. 1 can do all things—that have been done be- fore. I touch the soldier, the states- man, the thinker and the politician who succeed, and the writer who is never before his time and never behind it. If I touch the child he shall not weep for failure.” About the mother’s head:- the bees were flying, touching her with their long, tapering limbs, and in her brain picture, out of the shadow of the room came one with sallow face, deep lined, the eheeks drawn into hollows, and a ‘mouth smiling quiveringly. He stretched out his hand. And the moth back and cried, “Who are you?"er rem He answered nothing, and she looked up between his eyelids. And she said, ‘What can you give the child—health?” And he said: “The man I touch, there wakes up in his blood a burning fever that shall lick his blood as fire, The fever that I will give him shall be cured when his life is cured.” ;‘Youhgl‘ll‘ehweul!-h?" e shook his head. “The man whom I touch, when he bends to pick up gold he sees suddenly a light over his head in the sky; while he looks up to see it the gold slips from between his fingers, or sometimes another passing takes it from them.” “Fame?” He answered: “Likely not. For the man I touch there is a path traced out in the sand by a finger which no man sees. That he must follow. Sometimes it leads almost to the top and then turns down suddenly into the valley. He must follow it, though none else sees the tracing.” He said: “He shall hunger for it, but he shall not find it. When he stretches out his arms to it, and would lay his heart against a thing he loves, then far off along the horizon he shall see a light play. He must go toward it. The thing he loves will not journey with him; he must travel alone. When he presses somewhat to his burning heart, crying ‘Mine, mine, my own!’ he shall hear a voice, ‘Renounce! Re- nounce! This is not thine!’” “He shall succeed!” He said: “He shall fail. When he runs with others they shall reach the goal before him. For strange voices shall call to him and strange lights shall beckon him, and he must wait and listen. And this shall be the strangest: Far off across the burning sands where to other men there is the desert’s waste he shall see a blue sea. On that sea the sun shines always, and the water is blue as burning amethyst and the foam is white on the shore. A great land rises from it, and he shall se?d upon the mountain tops burning gold.” ‘The mother said, “He shall reach it?" And he smiled curiously. She said, “It is real?” And he said, “What is real?” And she looked up between his half- closed eyelids and said, “Touch.” And he leaned forward and laid his hand upon the sleeper and whispered to it, smiling, and this only she heard: “This shall be thy reward—that the ideal shall be real to thee.” And the child trembled; but the mother slept on heavily and her brain picture vanished. But deep within her the antenatal thing that lay there had a dream. In those eyes that had never seen the day, in that half-shaped brain was a sensation of light! Light—that it never had seen. Ulht--thl perhaps it never should see. Light—that existed some- where! And already it had its reward—the Ideal was real to it. Silver Sponge Cake. Beat five egg whites until stiff and dry. Beat in gradually three-fourths cupful of sugar and half a teaspoonful of cream of tartar mixed together. Sift enough pastry flour twice to make three-fourths cupful and fold into the mixture with one teaspoonful of vanilla. Fill buttered small pans two-thirds full of the mixture, sprinkle with powdered sugar and bake for about 15 minutes in a moderate oveit. g NANCY PAGE Books and Diaries Are Always Acceptable. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. *Twas the night before Christmas and Nancy and Peter were checking their list of gifts. That morning Nancy had remembered that she had forgotten a gift for Janet, the 16-year- old sister of Lois. She telephoned Pe- ter hesitantly, knowing how he hated to go into shops on a day when they were as crowded as she knew they would be today. He answered quite briskly and cheerily. Her hopes went up. “I have forgotten a present for Janet, dear, and I wondered whether you would stop into the book shop and get one of those diaries with lock and key. She is just at the age where secrets are thrilling things. I know I adored mine when I was her age.” She paused— “Sure thing, I have to go in anyway to get a book for George. I have seen two or three good ones on business and I have an idea that will sui¢ him better than anything else. Tl get the diary for you.” Later that evening Nancy brought the two -books to him. She had wrapped Janet's in dull blue paper with deep blue seals. It was tied with silver ribbon and Janet's name was printed on a card which was past- ed on the wrapping. George’s book was done up in tan paper with ribbon of tobacco brown. A seal in dull greens and red was the only ornamentation. It looked like a man, sturdy, unostentatious. And the wrappings did not belie the con- tents nor the recipient. Tying up the package was the payment Peter had exacted from Nancy for doing her shopping for her. So ’twas fair all around. . Banana Cream. Dissolve one package of lemon- flavored gelatin in one cupful of boil- ing water, add half a cupful of cold water and cool until it begins to thicken. Mash five ripe bananas until very smooth, add two tablespoonfuls of con- fectioner’s sugar and then one cupful of cream whipped stiff. Fold into the cold geiatin and pour into a wet mold. Chill, turn out and garnish with a little whipped cream and chopped candied cherries or pistachio nuts. AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN. “If a man whips his wife once, that's his fault; but if he gets second chance to do it, it's her fault.” 3330 M St. N.W. With Bangs and Without. ‘There seems to be such a persistent demand for coiffure suggestions that I am going to give extra space to illus- trate several today. Milady is always looking for variety in clothes and hair dressing, and with the return of long hair it is possible for her to gratify her taste for change in hair dressing | more easily than when her hair was short. Full bangs are used in two of the coiffures illustrated above. They are becoming to a tall girl with an oval face and rather bold features, but as a rule do not suit round, fat faces with the small noses. Coliffure No. 1 is brushed forward from the crown of the head in long bangs that curve under just above the eyebrows. ‘The side hair is also brushed forward in two strands, the upper one is curled under on the cheekbone and the lower strand covers the ear, giving the effect of two scallops at the sides of the face. This hair need not be very long. The back halr is twisted together and looped “In & horizontal figure 8 across the back of the head. Coiffure No. 2 is for bobbed hair, but may be adapted to hair that is being allowed to grow long. The hair is parted in the middle and then brushed forward in long bangs, the part being almost obliterated. The ends of hair are turned under as in coiffure No. 1, the side hair is brushed forward, cut short and curled upward about the upper part of the cheeks and temples. The lower half of the ear is exposed. The back hair is cut to a point. This coiffure is becoming to a short girl with a long face and well shaped head. Coiffure No. 3 is a center part ar- rangement. Another part is made from ear to ear. 'The front hair on each side of the part is divided into an upper and a lower layer. The lower layer is short, and when curled makes a fringe covering the ears and coming forward on the cheeks. The upper layer is longer and is brushed smooth over the N a round ¢ pinned agal curl. These around the top of the ear. hair may be treated in that is, brushed smooth, and the s made into sculpture curls pinned flat at the back in two rows running from ear to ear. Coiffure No. 4 is becoming %o & girl with a high forehead and round face. The hair is parted just to one side of the center. The larger sectiom of hair has the merest suggestion of a wave across the top of the head, but is waved deeply at the side. The smaller section of hair recedes from the top of the forehead, comes forward in a wave above the eyebrow, recedes again, showing the temple, and comas for- ward in a wave on the cheek. The ends are tucked under and fastened with a wire clip behind the ears. The back hair is twisted into a small coll en the back of the neck. (Copyright, 1928.) PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE By WILLIAM BRADY, M. D. Suspender Buttons. The physiclan of a large industrial plant, complaining that white collar men do not follow his advice about the care of health, says he urges upon these skilled work dodgers three essentials, namely, attention to the cultivation of good posture, brisk exercise every day and the wearing of suspenders. Not so many years ago nearly every man wore suspenders. He had no par- ticular reason for wearing ’'em, only that pants usually came equipped with suspender buttons. Then came a change of administration. I forget whether it was the Democrats or the Republicans that got in, but anyway hard times came along, and some great economist in the clothing trade conceived the idea of omitting suspender buttons from certain styles of nether- garments, and not a few of us were compelled to put our trust in belts for a time, because the very models we affected came through buttonless. It meant a great deal of discomfort and even chagrin, but what was the alternative? Could a man ask his wife to sew on six (6) half dozen buttons all at once? Faced with such a quandary there is just one alternative course a man can take. He puts on a belt, pushes out his stomach and hopes there will be no disaster. And this tells hardest on the white collar class. In the next quadrennial effort to de- termine what is the matter with the country, attention should be called to the alarming growth of the lunch club evil. It is getting so prevalent that. if you want to see a businessman or any of his departmental heads, you have to catch him out of bank hours, for on Fridays, Mondays, Wednesdays, Satur- days, Tuesdays and Thursdays he is out to lunch at other times. That is one of the surest ways to distinguish gn execu- tive from an operative. The operative lunches in from 30 to 60 minutes. The executive lunches from 10 to 3, except Saturdays. Athletic, physically fit young lads may wear a belt without showing much harm from it for years. But a man past 30, who is slipping a bit, beginning to take an interest in girth control, perhaps outgrowing some of his clothes, losing the “wind” he formerly had, making fine progress in an executive position, makes a sad mistake when he leaves off | suspenders. | Not that it is a bad thing for such a | man to push out his stomach, as he has | to in order to make sure his belt is ful- filling its purpose, but the trouble is the | lack of suspenders unconsciously in-| hibits any faint impulse there may be left in the man’s automatic system to | pull the stomach in again, once he has | SPARKLING DELICIOUS DIFFERENT got it out there on guard against fail- ure of the belt to function. Far be it from me to insinuate that a successful dodger of work is preparing for a funeral when his waist measure- ment overtakes and passes his chest measurement, but I do aver he is no longer as good a man as he was before he acquired the near-Falstaffian sil- houette. In case the innuendo annoys the ex- pert work evader, he may find consola- tion in the last six movements of the Third Brady Symphony, a copy of v.ilélch the author will be glad to pro- vide. (Copyright, 1928.) Everyday Law Cases Is Knowledge of Reward a Con- dition of the Right to Obtain It? BY THE COUNSELLOR. B ‘While passing the ‘People’s Bank of Centerville Tom Platt saw a man crouchin~ close to the side wall. Sus- pecting wething wrong, Platt crept behind fell on him with full force, calling 1. help. Subsequent events developed the fact that Platt had frustrated an attempt to burglarize the bank. On being com- mended for his feat, Platt learned for the first time that ®the Bankers’ Asso- ciation of the county had a standing reward of $500 for the arrest of per- sons attempting to rob banks. Platt claimed the reward, but the association refused to pay on the ground that Platt did not know of the reward and his action was not done in reliance thereon. ‘The court, when the controversy came to trial, decided the case against Platt, in accord with the following rea- §o¥hg, which represents the majority ule: “The liability for a reward of this kind must be created by contract. A mere offer does not give rise to a con- tract. That requires the assent of two minds and, therefore, is not complete until the offer is accepted. Such an offer may be accepted by any one who performs the service called for when he knows that it has been made and acts in performance of it. If he is ignorant of the offer he cannot be sald to have acted in performance of it “In Delaware, Indiana, Kentucky, Vermont and Pennsylvania the oppo- site rule prevails.” Chicago public schools employ 13,000 teachers. 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